Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem says North Dakota’s workers’ compensation agency did not violate the state’s open records law when it denied a legal record to an agency critic.
Stenehjem wrote in a legal opinion that the record was a privileged “‘attorney work product.”
Chad Nodland is a Bismarck attorney and critic of the Workforce Safety and Insurance agency. He sought a copies of memos written by the agency’s legal staff about severance pay for former WSI director Brent Edison.
Nodland operates a Web site called northdecoder.com, which often features public records relating to WSI. He has requested a number of legal opinions from Stenehjem in records disputes with Workforce Safety
Topics Workers' Compensation
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